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The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, October 18, 2007

Dignity!

By Rush Limbaugh
RushLimbaugh.com


On Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi accused "hate radio" of launching a vicious attack on a 12-year-old Baltimore kid enrolled in the S-CHIPS program. Now, she didn't identify the purveyor of the supposed "hate," but she did say that the "attacks" were "beneath the dignity of the debate."

Well, the AP carried her water, and they identified the "hate." They quote me, from October the 8th, when I said this: "This family owns a house in a neighborhood of homes valued in the $400,000 to $500,000 range. They send the kid out to lie. He's 12 years old! They will use anybody! They'll corrupt anybody, to get where they're headed. That's who they are, folks.”

I stand by every word! It was a criticism of Ms. Pelosi, and not the kid. Democrats used this 12-year-old to attack the President. The kid's radio address made it appear as if President Bush and Republicans were denying health care for poor kids, which is BS! The kid is enrolled in the program. He and his siblings attend private school. The family's income is well above the poverty line, by their own admission. Their child is enrolled in a program intended for "poor children" -- a program Democrats want to expand to families making upwards of $80,000 a year.

Democrats exploit children, just as they exploit people with debilitating illnesses; they throw them into partisan debates, betting they'll be immune from criticism. Well, I am not going to be intimidated by Democrats' smears, or their lies. It is they who are purveying hate -- and fraud -- and deceits. Speaker Pelosi won't "dignify" what I said because she and her party have no "dignity" to bring to the debate. Think I should call her "Stupid Speaker"?

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